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Global Financial Crisis and European Banking

In: European Banking

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  • Özlem Olgu

    (Koç University)

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The last months of 2008 witnessed the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1929–1930. The first indications of a serious crisis appeared on 15 January 2008, with the news of a sharp drop in profits of the Citigroup, which led to a significant fall on the New York Stock Exchange.1 This was followed by a spectacular fall in share prices in all major world markets and, as a result, a number of US and EU banks declared massive losses in their 2007 end-of-year financial statements. In fact, the global financial crisis, which started in the US and expanded its area of impact by spilling over to Europe and Asia, entered a new phase when Lehman Brothers, one of the leading investment banks in the US, filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008. The situation, which emerged as a liquidity problem in the inter-bank markets during the early stages of the crisis, gradually turned into concerns regarding the reliability of financial institutions.

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  • Özlem Olgu, 2011. "Global Financial Crisis and European Banking," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, in: European Banking, chapter 7, pages 173-198, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:pmschp:978-0-230-30591-5_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230305915_7
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